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• Access your blog
• Add an entry
• Read entries
• Use Blog Menu block

About

Blogs in Moodle are user based, therefore each user has his/her own individual blog.
Moodle blog is a very simple tool which is best used for:

• online journal for self-reflection
• area for storing private notes and drafts

Note that it is not possible to comment on entries, and there is no such thing as a class blog.

If you want to have an area where students will communicate with their classmates only, you need to use a Forum tool instead (simply allow both discussions and replies there, and students will be able to post their entries and reply to each other).

In addition, UofM offers a stand-alone UThink blog tool which is far more advanced and may serve your teaching needs better.

Live examples:

• Moodle user blog for demo student Cookie
• UThink class blog (linked from Moodle course site)

Access your Moodle blog

• Login to Moodle
• Click on myMoodle link in the upper right corner: https://moodle.umn.edu/my
• Click View my entries link under the Blog Menu area

Or

• Login to Moodle
• Click on your own name in the upper right corner
• Click Blog tab

Or

• Go to your site homepage
• Click on the Participants link in People block
• Click on your own name
• Click Blog tab

Add an entry

• Go to your blog
• Click on the Add a new entry link
• Write your entry and give it a title
• Attach files if necessary via the Browse button
• Choose who you wish to publish the entry to = who may see the entry. There are three options available:
  • Yourself (draft) - this entry will be visible only to you
  • Anyone on this server: moodle.umn.edu - anyone who is logged in with the UofM Internet or Guest ID will be able to read your entry
  • Anyone in the world - absolutely anyone will be able to read your entry
• Add tags, if desired
• Click on the Save changes button
  

Read entries

To read entries made by all Moodle users:

• Login to Moodle
• Click on myMoodle link in the upper right corner: https://moodle.umn.edu/my
• Click View site entries (made by all Moodle users) link under the Blog Menu area

To read entries made by class members only:

• Go to your site homepage
• Click on the Participants link in People block
• Click Blogs tab

To read entries made by one individual:

• Go to your site homepage
• Click on the Participants link in People block
• Click on the name of an individual to access his/her profile
• Click Blog tab

Use Blog Menu block

If you plan to use Blog tool a lot, you may add a Blog Menu block to your site, to make the navigation easier:

• Go to your site homepage
• Click Turn editing on button
• Select Blog Menu from the Blocks block in the lower right corner.
  • Blog Menu will display the following links:
    • Add an entry
    • View my entries
    • Blog preferences
    • View course entries (made by users in this course)
    • View site entries (made by all Moodle users)
    • Add/delete tags